NAC284.5415. Annual leave and sick leave: Exception employees.

     1. As used in this section:

     (a) “Exception employee” means an employee whose normally scheduled hours of work are more than 80 hours biweekly; and

     (b) “Regular employee” means an employee whose normally scheduled hours of work are 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week, or 80 hours biweekly.

     2. An exception employee is entitled to accrue annual leave and sick leave based on his or her average workday. The average workday of such an employee must be determined by dividing the total scheduled hours of work per year by 2,088 and multiplying the quotient by 8.

     3. When an exception employee is appointed to a job classification with a schedule of work as a regular employee, the accrued annual leave and sick leave of the exception employee must be converted to the amount of annual leave and sick leave that would have been accrued as a regular employee.

     4. When a regular employee is appointed to a job classification with a schedule of work as an exception employee, the accrued annual leave and sick leave of the regular employee must be converted to the amount of annual leave and sick leave that would have been accrued as an exception employee.

     5. For the purposes of this section, a firefighter is an exception employee and shall be deemed to work an average of 56 hours per week and 2,912 hours per year.

     (Added to NAC by Dep’t of Personnel, 9-13-91, eff. 10-1-91; A 3-1-96)